Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-30
DAKOTA NEWS.

-lne BeasNe county lar was held ut
Huron.
The tax levy in Bon Homma CO unity is
10 mills.
Fargo is to have the free delivery
postal system.
--Mellette is getting to be big wheat
shipping point.
Spencer is one OF the prosperous towns
of McCook county.
Corn is ripe and the crop first class in
the region ii Huron.
Work is progressing slowly on the in
sane asylu1nat jamestown.
Large quantities of wheat are being
marketed in Brown county.
Wheat around Westport is averaging
about twenty-five bushels per acre.
Brown county claims to have raised
3.500,0o bushels of wheat this year.
Ezra Nkctt has assumed control Of
the Putney Messenger in Brown county.
In his division speeches Gen. Hugh J.
Campbell pitches again into ex- Gov. Or
day.
Rev. Father Hair is editing q new
paper at Aberdeen, the Catholic Amer
icdn.
Three horses belonging to Mrs. Frank
Dries, Of Nrmillion, were killed by light
ming.
Passenger trains on the Minneapolis
and Pacific railway are now running into
Oaks.
james McNear, breakman on the
Northern Pacific, was run over by the train
and killed near Dickinson.
Gov. Church thinks he cannot organ
lie Church and Pierce counties on account
of an imperfection in the law.
COL Jumper, of Aberdeen, will serve
on the staff Of Gen. Fairchld at the sham
battle at the Minnesota state fair
The report is again received that ex-
Gov. Pierce is to be placed at the head of
the state university at Grand Forks.
The st. ,ul Globes interview with
NJ. II. Day is to the effect that he is not
opposing Clevelands denomination.
1t is reported that Col. Plummer will
go to Oakes to take charge of new paper
there to he started by Ellis and Brown.
Huron is jubilant over its prospect of
getting cheaper coal by way of the Mani
toba railroad now building to that city.
-Groton shipped last year 10000
bushels of wheat, and expects to ship
double that amount this year. There are
six elevators there.
The Wakonda, Clay county, hide
7'ende'at has been moved to Centreville,
and the material will be used in issuing
the CeMreville Journal.
Judge Spencer has not yet decided
what place in Dakota will become his resi-
dence. He was appointed judge of the
Fifth Central Dakota) district last winter.
Commissioners Mcclure says over A.
23G miles of railroad were built in Dakota
last year, which is more than either Ne
braska, Nevada, Delaware, Rhode Island.
West Virginia and half the southern states
have got.
1t is said Gov. Church has admitted
that he acted too hastily in deposing Coils.
Webb and Brown at Huron. The governor
knows how it is himself-the effect of look
ing upon the wine when it is red or apy
other color. The temptat on is strong.
"A correspondent interviewed Van Tas-
sci, ofthe insane asylum board, who init
mated that if he would let new man be
appointed in his place, Gov. Church would
approve the plans and let the asylum ex-
tension 60 on. He added that he would
see the governor in the internal regions
before he would resign with the charges of
corruption hanging over him.
The territorial tax of Dakota, accord
ing to the levy, will amount to about $780,
600. This will be used to defray the ex-
pense of the territorial government, and
yet there are some administration orgaas
that tell the farmers that it is for their in
terest to have Dakota remain territory.
because the United States government
pays now all the expense of the territorial
government.
According to General Hugh Camp
bells latest speech Ohio was kept a terri
tory five years, Indiana fourteen years,
Kentucky one year, Tennessee six years,
Missouri nine years, Iowa nine years, Wis
consin one year, MINES ota eleven wears,
Nebraska five years, and an average time
for which territory has been held as such
has been seven years. Dakota has been
territory for thirty years and the chances
for admission at the next congress are not
excellent.
The annual meeting Of the w. C. T.
U. was held at Huron. 1t was the largest
and most successful temperance gathering
ever held in the territory. Nearly 200 del
egates from all parts of Dakota. and many
prominent W. c. T. U. workers from east
ern states were present. Mrs. Graham, of
Jamestown, and Mrs. McCarln, of Huron,
were chosen delegates to the national con-
vention at Nashville, in October. Mrs,
Barker, of Chamberlain, the president, re-
manned in Huron few days to confer with
the executive committee and perfect plans
for the local option canvass. Resolutions
were passed asking the prohibition party
to favor woman suffrage in their vorions